An Open Letter to My High School Teachers

Lowen Puckey
Sep 9, 2018 · 3 min read

Dear High School Teachers,

Let’s go for a trip down memory lane:

In the 1980s, children of divorced parents never amounted to anything. “It’s to be expected, she’s from a single parent family,” a teacher told my mother.

In the 1980s, you couldn’t learn the drums if you were a girl because your music teacher told you, “girls don’t play the…

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Lowen Puckey

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Advocate for mental health, chronic illness and disability. Sometime writer of funnies & fiction. Perpetual drinker of tea.

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